tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post1853244052530437306..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: QotD: Why Johnny Can't Work edition.Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-78186186717489624792010-06-11T20:30:28.443-04:002010-06-11T20:30:28.443-04:00Well. They suck, but they suck about 30% less than...Well. They suck, but they suck about 30% less than Czech Republic gun prices.<br /><br />Or is 633$ for a new, vanilla Glock-17 a reasonable price? That's about the best I find here.Außenseiternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-20504276186368058282010-06-11T14:41:13.080-04:002010-06-11T14:41:13.080-04:00Außenseiter,
GunBroker prices generally suck, and...Außenseiter,<br /><br />GunBroker prices generally suck, and seem to be invariably higher (for anything in current production) than the same gun would be at a gun show, PLUS the shipping and transfer fees.<br /><br />It's been that way since they went from the early days of "EBay for guns" to almost exclusively an online stores for FFLs.Geodkythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09328915597574377444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-55712870289902219892010-06-10T12:58:27.856-04:002010-06-10T12:58:27.856-04:00Living Wage?
Is that enough for 3 hots and a cot?...Living Wage?<br /><br />Is that enough for 3 hots and a cot?<br /><br />Is that 3200 sq ft home, two cars and private school for the kids?<br /><br />I seem to read about folks who can't live on $150K and afford their vacation home at the shore. Are they not getting a living wage?<br /><br />First job was $2.00 an hour after school carrying green ware up two flights of stairs at a lamp factory. It went to $2.10 and I was thrilled. <br /><br />Yes you were riding in the shopping cart in those day Youngster.<br /><br />GerryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-45048809684159295822010-06-10T12:58:02.469-04:002010-06-10T12:58:02.469-04:00Living Wage?
Is that enough for 3 hots and a cot?...Living Wage?<br /><br />Is that enough for 3 hots and a cot?<br /><br />Is that 3200 sq ft home, two cars and private school for the kids?<br /><br />I seem to read about folks who can't live on $150K and afford their vacation home at the shore. Are they not getting a living wage?<br /><br />First job was $2.00 an hour after school carrying green ware up two flights of stairs at a lamp factory. It went to $2.10 and I was thrilled. <br /><br />Yes you were riding in the shopping cart in those day Youngster.<br /><br />GerryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-59407971817568084532010-06-10T02:36:52.046-04:002010-06-10T02:36:52.046-04:00@Geodkyt
The prices on that site, gunbroker, I bel...@Geodkyt<br />The prices on that site, gunbroker, I believe are not bad. I know about the FFL arrangement. It's the same here. (no one will ship you a gun. Though, the Post moves them and ammo around, but only to gun stores and the like)<br /><br />@OA<br /><br />Nah. 'm not autistic. Got the paper to prove it. But I'm not a herd mammal either. Not a bad deal.<br /><br />@Tam<br />"Wrong". Maybe I should've used a different word. <br />My parents appeared to have been not too thrilled to get over age 40 as I remember it.Außenseiternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-4585739317175890282010-06-09T23:57:34.526-04:002010-06-09T23:57:34.526-04:00Brookshires grocery chain, in TX, has baggers that...Brookshires grocery chain, in TX, has baggers that take your bags out to your car for you.<br /><br />They are required to do it and get in trouble with mgmt if they don't go out there with you. I try and try to tell the kids I can carry 2 bags of bread by myself....never worksErichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08690105635219191908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-10100155312695062402010-06-09T19:50:59.419-04:002010-06-09T19:50:59.419-04:00"Sorry. You're how old, on the wrong side..."<i>Sorry. You're how old, on the wrong side of forty?</i>"<br /><br />Right; wrong... It's all in how you look at it, kiddo.<br /><br />I've been where you are, but you haven't been where I am. I know that's galling, 'cause I've been there, too. Don't worry, though, you'll be here soon enough if you don't fuck up too badly. Run, Logan! :)Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-75350465539582551702010-06-09T19:22:41.501-04:002010-06-09T19:22:41.501-04:00"Außenseiter", eh? Probably because you&..."Außenseiter", eh? Probably because you're socially autistic...<br /><br />If it's merely rancid currywurst, I'll understand.OAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-7096884464137074382010-06-09T18:28:41.745-04:002010-06-09T18:28:41.745-04:001970s dollars? I don't know about that; I was ...<b><br />1970s dollars? I don't know about that; I was riding in the shopping cart in the '70s.<br /></b><br />Sorry. You're how old, on the wrong side of forty? <br />So I put 1983 dollars into the CPI /which is fudged by the gov't statisticans/ inflation calculator.<br />So, 3.10 of early eighties dollars are at least 7 dollars now.Außenseiternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-21444326322314303872010-06-09T17:30:31.602-04:002010-06-09T17:30:31.602-04:00Tim D said... "Tell me how that surcharge is...Tim D said... <i>"Tell me how that surcharge is treating you then?"</i><br /><br />Worked great for me in England and Massachusetts, as the total cost for staple items was less than I could get on the outside economy. In Massachusetts, I could also get a better selection of stuff on the economy, when I needed them on an exceptional basis.<br /><br />I stopped using the commissary when I moved back to America.Tirnohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12545609711956034630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-5692695742877161542010-06-09T15:40:27.538-04:002010-06-09T15:40:27.538-04:00Og, Tam:
Here's one entreprenuers opinion of...Og, Tam: <br /><br />Here's one entreprenuers opinion of the minimum wage.<br /><br />http://cafehayek.com/2010/04/an-entrepreneur-and-the-minimum-wage.html<br /><br />Excellent quote from the post: <br /><br />"I’m not being forced to pay $7.25/hour; YOU are being forced to accept $7.25/hour no matter what, even if you’d be willing to take less in order to get (or keep) a job."<br /><br />A perspective that the press doesn't show much, eh?Cond0011https://www.blogger.com/profile/04576204654819543273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-11850701416002760102010-06-09T15:36:53.593-04:002010-06-09T15:36:53.593-04:00yep. Also known as the International brotherhood o...yep. Also known as the International brotherhood of Lectrical workers.<br /><br />How they managed to get "Workers" out of that group, I'll never know.oghttp://www.neanderpundit.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-69000305618062835432010-06-09T15:29:04.939-04:002010-06-09T15:29:04.939-04:00Og,
"IBEW?"
I Barely Ever Work? ;)Og,<br /><br />"<i>IBEW?</i>"<br /><br />I Barely Ever Work? ;)Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-77034998890098577122010-06-09T15:23:32.251-04:002010-06-09T15:23:32.251-04:00The point I think Roberta IS trying to make, and I...The point I think Roberta IS trying to make, and I think it is a very valid one- is that nobody is going to hire high school students at $7 an hour to do $2.50 an hour work. And that is demonstrably true; in the Chicago metro area, where I work, no lawn would ever get mowed it it weren't for Mexicans. This is why Dick da Turd so fiercely defends his city;s "sanctuary" status- he knows that there is a LOT of $2.50 an hour work that needs to be done, and who is going to do it? Teamsters? IBEW? Nope. If you want jobs available to highschool kids, you have to have a minimum wage low enough to make it practical to hire high school kids- I bagged groceries for $1.80/hr, back when that was the federal minimum wage. I wasn't stupid enough to think I should be able to live off of it, it was money to put toward school bills and beer. <br /><br />Dick Daley, typical of his type,is perfectly happy to have an underpaid underclass of people, and knows the city will be a filthy shithole without them. And he knows they'll work like dogs and be happy with the little money they make. Yep, he's a mayor of the People, allright. Scumbag.oghttp://www.neanderpundit.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-91582923627950190292010-06-09T15:14:24.596-04:002010-06-09T15:14:24.596-04:00I just read in the news that leftists don't un...I just read in the news that leftists don't understand basic economics. Obviously our friend from Austria proves this is so.<br /><br /><br />WV = cutsibif<br /><br />How appropriate!Timmeehhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10473249796933057572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-66023644296583141082010-06-09T14:34:35.775-04:002010-06-09T14:34:35.775-04:00Außenseiter:
You (if you were a normal, law-abidi...Außenseiter:<br /><br />You (if you were a normal, law-abiding US citizen) can't actually buy a Glock online. <br /><br />First, sales (or even gifts) across state lines are generally prohibited, unless you work through a Federal Firearms Licencee (i.e., a licensed dealer or manufacturer).<br /><br />Second, it is illegal to MAIL a handgun, except in carefully defined circumstances. They would have to be sent by private shipping -- and those guys prefer to send guns, especially handguns, Overnight Air for security reasons.<br /><br />What you do is pay it, pay shipping (by the most expensive means available) to a local (in your state) licensed dealer, and then pay HIM for the privilege of watching you fill out one (or two or more, depending on if your state has a seperate forms) pieces of paper. Oh, and he'll be charging you his cost for teh NICS check, if one is required (there are exemptions where you do not need a NICS check, like if you have a carry concealed license the ATF thinks is intrusive enough).<br /><br />The transaction is legally like you're buying it from the local dealer, only you had to pay his cost for it upfront, and directly to a source dealer, and then you paid the local dealer his profit directly. The paperwork regards it as a transfer from Dealer A to Dealer B, and a seperate transfer from Dealer B to you.<br /><br />This presumes you HAVE a gun dealer in your area willing to do transfers -- othewise you have to find a dealer out of your area (but still in your state) to handle it.<br /><br />Buying guns online invariably costs more money and takes more time.<br /><br />"Buying guns online" only makes sense in a few circumstances:<br /><br />1. "Antique" guns that aren't regulated as firearms. That means either things like flintlocks (even if made recently), or guns that were actually built in the 19th Century, like an original Henry rifle.<br /><br />2. Guns that qualify as "Curios" (odd guns, valuable primarily for collector value) or "Relics" (old guns), IF you have a "Curios and Relics" Federal Firearm License. A Glock is not a C&R gun, unless it's one of a kind curio (for example, once owned by Saddam Hussein, with proper papers and provenance). A C&R license is a collector's license -- you couldn't transfer a gun for someone else, only for yourself, and only for C&R qualified guns. But within those limits, you can buy guns like a dealer would, even out of state.<br /><br />3. You CANNOT find the gun you want anywhere, and had to search online. If you just GOTTA have a a 3" M13 S&W with pink grips and a serial number ending in "69", well, you may be searching the Intarwebz a long time. . . but you'd never find it in a local gunstore anyway.<br /><br />4. You are buying a machinegun, in which case the time and cost of getting it sent to your dealer (who in this case has to be a federally licensed machinegun dealer) is insignificant compared to the time and cost of getting it in the first place. After all, if you're dropping $15,000 (yes, that's 3 zeroes) and waiting six months for teh federal government to apporve your paperwork on a rather common and simple buzzgun, what's the extra $300 in shipping/transfer taxes and extra 2 weeks in shipping time?Geodkythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09328915597574377444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-78554927323339009042010-06-09T14:27:40.070-04:002010-06-09T14:27:40.070-04:00I know a couple of people who work in grocery stor...I know a couple of people who work in grocery stores now. They're all in college or even out of college. I consider it two factors...<br /><br />1) The Age factor, these days you have to be 18 to handle alcohol or tobacco. It seems as though it will be an utter and complete collapse in society if a 17 year old cashier rings up your beer purchase or grabs you a pack of smokes. As an employer, why deal with that? It's easier to handle kids over 18.<br /><br />2) Job competition. In certain areas of the country (larger cities for example), it is becoming increasingly common, for those will college degrees to only find employment in a retail or service environment. Essentially, when you compete in a saturated job market where everyone has a college degree, then even the check out girl at the register has a B.A. It's a growing symptom of our country's desire to over educate. <br /><br />I feel that's being driven by the poor quality of public education. I deal with Freshmen every fall, it's disturbing the lack of knowledge they have. They know a disturbing amount less than I knew when I graduated from high school, less than a decade ago. <br /><br />-RobRevolver Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10745371069603827032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-77476762350733960582010-06-09T14:17:15.761-04:002010-06-09T14:17:15.761-04:00Tirno said: Since one doesn't pay sales tax in...Tirno said: Since one doesn't pay sales tax in the commissary...<br /><br />Tell me how that surcharge is treating you then?Tim Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-86288431888923697552010-06-09T14:10:26.171-04:002010-06-09T14:10:26.171-04:00Interesting conversation about minimum wage. Here...Interesting conversation about minimum wage. Here's a link to Tom's Inflation Calculator which gives a ballpark figure of the stremgth of your dollar/wage compared to many years ago.<br /><br />http://www.halfhill.com/inflation.html<br /><br />Marketing, logistical technological, and Production improvements/distortions are not reflected by this calculator so I am sure you will find somethings of a marked different monetary value than they were many years ago (Ex: Personal Computers).Cond0011https://www.blogger.com/profile/04576204654819543273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-43150993389879772742010-06-09T14:08:53.685-04:002010-06-09T14:08:53.685-04:00Ed,
"When we introduce government, an uninte...Ed,<br /><br />"<i>When we introduce government, an uninterest (in that transaction) third party, we skew the system badly.</i>"<br /><br />Bingo.<br /><br />Econ 101:<br /><br />A) I use my money to buy something for me.<br /><br />b) I use my money to buy something for someone else.<br /><br />iii) I use someone else's money to buy something for me.<br /><br />4) I use someone else's money to buy something for someone else.<br /><br />The latter case ensures the greatest profligacy in spending and the least concern with the merchandise and is the <i>very definition</i> of the .gov tampering in the marketplace.Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-20054702214874321482010-06-09T14:04:59.928-04:002010-06-09T14:04:59.928-04:00"@Tam $3.10 an hour, in 1970's dollars? M..."<i>@Tam $3.10 an hour, in 1970's dollars? Man. Whew. That's about $7 per hour in today's dollars.<br /><br />Here cashiers get at best 5$ per hour. Students doing such jobs only get 3.50$. Supermarkets don't have long lines, usually. There is a glut of them, and they really try to compete in services.</i>"<br /><br />1970s dollars? I don't know about that; I was riding in the shopping cart in the '70s.<br /><br />Thing is, a minimum wage is just that. It's not a minimum for this and a minimum for that and another minimum for the other thing. "Minimum Wage" means that the least the evil corporation can pay its employees, whether they be part-time baggers or full-time butchers is $<i>X</i>/hr.<br /><br />Obviously we then find a way to eliminate the less-skilled part time positions, and I'm left lugging my groceries to the car on my own and Suzy Student is Sierra Oscar Lima if she wants a job.<br /><br /><br />re: The Glock. I know that the news over there tells you that us barbarian cowboy Americans can just order one up from Amazon, but that just ain't so.Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-1934681143840985682010-06-09T13:54:26.669-04:002010-06-09T13:54:26.669-04:00"I think about that whenever I go to a modern...<i>"I think about that whenever I go to a modern supermarket, with two registers open and then I get to schlep my six bags to my car myself. Retail customer service, formerly the almost exclusive province of the part-time high school student or retiree, just isn't economical at >$8/hr..."</i><br /><br />You know the last place where I find bagger/schleppers these days? Military commissaries. That's because they're not employed, strickly speaking, but work for tips only. Since one doesn't pay sales tax in the commissary, it's considered polite to put what would have been your on-the-economy tax hit and put it into the hands of the retiree/dependent spouse/high school kid. It works because largely the military community is going to frown upon someone that doesn't tip for the service received, and of course, you're free to refuse the service if you don't want to tip.<br /><br />For the baggers, the commissary just issues them a badge with a number on it to say it's OK for them to be operating there, and from that point on, they can earn as much as they're worth. Work faster, get more trips out, get more tips. Put on the sunny smile and interested-in-you demeanor, earn more tips. Work when nobody else wants to, more tipping opportunities. Pure, rapid free market in action.Tirnohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12545609711956034630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-1680793606552104322010-06-09T13:39:00.383-04:002010-06-09T13:39:00.383-04:00"Minimum wage" is a totally fictitious a..."Minimum wage" is a totally fictitious and political concept. A wage is a price for labor. All prices in a free market are a negotiation between willing buyer and willing seller. If you're willing to pay and I'm willing to work for that amount we've got a deal. <br /><br />When we introduce government, an uninterest (in that transaction) third party, we skew the system badly. <br /><br />Now wages are not related to the value of labor. The contribution of effort to profit become disconnected. <br /><br />In the mix we get a government that distributes largesse to a large segment of the population (poorly prepared workers) and does so without imposing a visible tax burden. <br /><br />The wage payer under mandate to pay an unrealistic wage now raises prices and we blame the business owner's greed rather than the venal politician who did the deed for votes. <br /><br />Detach the principles from the anecdotal evidence and voila, alle ist klaar!Ed Rasimushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13667325554289268659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-10539178184796052482010-06-09T13:37:59.906-04:002010-06-09T13:37:59.906-04:00Narcissism:
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/...Narcissism:<br /><br />http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/brain-and-behavior/articles/2009/04/21/narcissism-epidemic-why-there-are-so-many-narcissists-now.html<br /><br />What's wrong with being narcisstic? Ayn Rand said it was ok, so it should be quite kosher for Americans....<br /><br />/sarcasmAußenseiternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-28075789764076870412010-06-09T13:36:58.462-04:002010-06-09T13:36:58.462-04:00I think the baggers at our local Safeway are Union...I think the baggers at our local Safeway are Union...none are in High School.NotClauswitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14358707844087117280noreply@blogger.com